Bug 368882

Summary:	Alt+[char] keyboard shortcut precedence
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Petr Bartos <bartos.petr>
Component:	bars: location	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Petr Bartos 2016-09-16 07:20:45 UTC

Hi,
for some time (since early versions of kde4) I have remapped shortcut for edit location in Dolphin to Alt+D (instead of Ctrl+L) to match shortcut in web browsers. However in recent versions this shortcut is blocked in case path contains folder beginning with "D" - it shows dialog about ambiguous shortcut and nothing happens.

I noticed that Alt+[char] now by default opens popup menu with subdirectories of folder beginning with [char]. I don't know how long is there this functionality, but I think it should not collide with explicitly defined shortcuts.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2017-09-02 20:43:04 UTC

Confirmed the issue. But I'm not sure this is really fixable; in general, using the Alt key as the only modifier for a shortcut is dangerous because it risks collision with menu accelerators. Or other hidden functions, as you've discovered. I don't think we have a sane way to fix this.

FWIW, all modern web browsers use Ctrl+L to focus on the URL field.